tv hunting shows

I like watching the World of Beretta, when Gerald McRaney is hunting. He doesn't seem to mind, them showing him miss the animal he's shooting. Seems pretty honest, to me. They showed him missing at a Boar. He was pretty winded by the time the guide got him to the spot where he could take a shot. It was funny watching him miss, but at least it showed even a host can miss a long shot and not make any excuses afterwards.
 
Some mates of mine went hunting on a block in New Zealand- they do it tough, renting the block, carrying supplies in and basically doing the trip themselves and stalk all game.

The chopper pilot they hired also captures deer on occasion for a game ranch, one deer captured was pretty battered and bruised by the experience and the pilot knew that there was a party of journalists going to the game ranch that he also flies for. He wound up going to the vets, drugged the deer up, they then left it under a particular tree on the property.

Our big white hunter and guide (the latter of course knowing where to look) stumbled upon this hapless animal that could barely rise groggily rto its feet for big white hunter to shoot it.


This type of thing is shameful and I think gives us a bad name.
 
Hunting is boring, unless you're there.
Kinda like golf.

Here's 80% of my hunting stories all rolled into one.
I set up down wind, sat on my butt till I saw a deer with a rack, and then shot the deer. The end.

Remember I get the film rights.
 
I saw a little of that show where a bear was in the hunters tree stand. I think it was a woman and a man hunting with muzzle loaders in the same stand together. The deer these people shoot are always on the last day in the last hour of light. They waited 2 months for the wind to be right to hunt this stand. The last deer they see is always the one they were looking for. I like the show penns woods I think it is called. I do not see it on anymore, but there was alot of hunting on public land taking does and average bucks. When I first started to hunt I liked watching them, but I cant watch them much anymore. Somtimes I turn one on thinking it might be different. No hunting really just climbing into a pre-hung stand on a ranch, 5 seconds of waiting on tv then the kill shot.
 
I went to an local elk conference and 2 of the speakers made their own hunting videos. Remote, hard hunting - just the two of them. Quality of video was sketchy sometimes, but you could tell these guys were doing it the right way.

They made the mistake of showing an easily identified place on public land. They were contacted by the State and told to cease and desist (gave them a stern warning for the one slip up, if I recall). They were told they could continue by paying a fee and posting a huge bond and jumping through a lot of hoops. Seems the state does not like people makng money on thier land without a piece of the action. Bond was "in case we have to rescue you".

Might explain why so many of the shows are on private land.
 
New to hunting animals, just these past two seasons for deer with shotgun in NJ, I watched a few of these shows and quickly came to a conclusion; they are good to watch to check out new gear but if I wanted hunting skills or techniques, I would keep asking seasoned hunters my ignorant questions and continue reading all the hunting books I could find.

I haven't learned a thing from TV in general that I'd consider valuable.
 
BuzzCook,

That made me laugh. We stand hunt in MO (OK, I don't care if anyone likes it or not) due to the limited amount of land I own. When I get back some of my coworkers want to hear the story. Here's how it goes. O-Dark_thirty, climbed in stand, 0700, deer walks up, 0700 plus 5 seconds, deer dead. End of story. We don't even take any pictures of most of them anymore.

But back to the subject at hand, I make time to watch Jim Schockey. I like his show, he's honest, it's fair chase and he seems like a down to earth kind of guy. He hunts only with muzzleloader as well. And he most always gives a great explanation of post-kill and meat hauling.
 
There is also the TV factor:

The guys I know that I consider good hunters would be lousy on TV. I can't even imagine trying to hunt and have a camera man on my hip.

The guys who get the shows are guys that are good on TV and can hunt, not neccesarily the "best" hunters.
 
"Only Think worse than a 'Canned' Hunt, Is The High '5's" after the Kill
Makes Me Sick...."

I know, those hi 5's and laughs make me sick along with the comments of how beautiful the animal is (was). If the animal was so damn beautiful how can they pop a cap on it? I understand hunting, I understand trophys, I just don't understand the need for 50 heads on a wall, not taking care of the meat and letting someone else gut, clean and haul your 'TROPHY". I'll bet some of the hunters won't even eat wild game but if they do I don't believe they need 5 or 10 or 20 animals a year to feed thier families.

Someone said that hunting shows are as boring as watching golf. That is just so wrong on so many levels. Seeing wild game and wild country is so much better than watching grown men chasing a little white ball around. I'll take up golf when they let you use a rifle instead of a club. I guess there are similarities tho, a caddy is like a guide, they carry your stuff around, tell you how to take the shot, what the distance is etc. Me, I'll take huntings anytime.
 
High fives? I don't have a problem with it. Why not? I too am happy and exhilirated (sp?) when I make a kill...what's the problem?

Comments on how beautiful the animal is? Also don't have a problem with that. I do the same thing. The animals are beautiful to me, even plain old does. That doesn't mean I'm not going to harvest them.

What I have problems with are (1) Hunting on private ranches and pretending to be a good hunter, or hunting in smallish fenced areas and claiming to be a hunter, (2) this is the big one - not taking the meat, or being more focused on the trophy than the hunt itself and/or the meat, and (3) making unethical shots at too long of ranges for the condition, or on running game. :barf:

One time they actually showed some arse-clown taking a shot at a pronghorn at over 200 yards with a muzzleloader, and the animal was walking. He missed of course. Disgusting - could have wounded the animal easily.
 
FF, I dunno 'bout you, but I wasn't born an expert hunter. For me, hunting was a part of growing up, and something I worked danged hard for, as to opportunity for a place and for time to hunt.

Then there are city folks who never had access to a country place. Never grew up with a .22 of their own. Never even thought about hunting until on up in their twenties or thirties.

Without the easy hunts, how are they gonna learn? NFL pros aren't walkons from Joe's Bar&Grill, with no experience. Ignorance is curable, but the learning process must begin somewhere.

And even just sitting in a box blind beats heck out of sitting behind a desk and dreaming with a bunch of regret about what never happened...
 
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